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Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Tracey Campbell with her wonderful take on the challenge for this month.

Hi everyone, like most of you I am a total scrapbook addict and am thankful for my understanding
husband and two cheeky but loveable daughters Bronte and Paige. I work full time
in the Navy and show my cats and
dogs, so I have to grab my scrapping time when I can. I have
been scrapping for around 9 years now, when a friend dragged me to a
scrapbooking store for a beginners class....and I was hooked. I love to play
with all sorts of materials and products and tend to think my scrapbooking style
is eclectic....as I adapt and play with all sorts of styles to suit my photos
and what I have on hand. I have always been a messy person so lately my love of
multimedia is shining through into my scrapbooking a little bit.

Here is my layout created for this challenge ...

I was inspired by the positions of the stripes on the awning and the beach chair and mirrored that in my layout, by positioning the striped paper in the top left and bottom right corners. When I saw the bold colours with the enhancing black through out the poster I knew that I had to copy this so I chose my papers for their brightness and added the black elements though the title, embellishments and the dribbles of black ink.

And here are two more examples of my work ...

Thanks for inviting me to be the Guest Designer this month and I look forward to seeing what you all create using the fantastic criteria.

Time To Create is a family business. We share a passion to create, share and develop the best that we imagine! We only stock products that we use and believe in. Our stock is always priced at the keenest costing we can do. We support Australian manufacturers and many Australian suppliers and try to have as wide a variety as possible.

Could the winners please contact me at jjjustjane@bigpond.com with their postal details. Don't forget to grab our winners badge from the sidebar.

Our Creative Team favourite this month is Di who will receive a little something from me.

And now some final inspiration from our remaining design team using this delightful government advertising poster. Criteria this month is to use striped pattern paper on your layout.

We would LOVE to see more entries - striped patterned paper and bright cheerful colours - it can't get much easier than that.

I'd like to welcome a new member to our team - Stina Westbom. Stina hails all the way from Sweden and does the most amazing work - I am sure you will just love what she has to inspire you. Check out her blog for more gorgeous inspiration.

Just a quick page using some of the colours from the poster and the striped patterned paper.

Now we'd love to see your interpretations of our inspiration this month.

Remember we happily accept all forms of paper crafting for your entry including digital and encourage international submissions. All we ask is that you create an new entry for our challenge although you are most welcome to combine with a sketch and/or colour challenge if you wish. You have until 11.55pm on the last day of the month to submit your entry.

Next week we will be introducing you to our July guest designer, Tracey Campbell.

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Welcome to our July round of ARTastic 3T's - Tips, Tricks and Techniques where each month one of our creative team will show you are few quick tips and/or techniques to use on your layouts. This month we feature team memberMaja Stokk and her gorgeous layout from this month.

Hi, Maja here today =). It´s my turn to inspire you ARTastic readers. First I
thought about showing a special technique, but decided to show you step by
step how I made my inspiration layout for the July challenge.

Hope you want to
join me through my pictures =) So lets begin!

I guess I might be a bit odd, but I start with the flowers. So I chose my flowers, my pic and then some pp to go with this month challenge. Then I added the mediums I wanted to use and last a couple of stencils to go with the mediums.

I start with the background. Use my stencils and two different colors of Gelatos. I smear out the Gelatos with some water. I use my fingers for that work ;). When it´s done and it has dried I take some Shimmeriz texture paint and use it with one of my stencils. Let it dry! or use a heater =) then I used some black India ink and Distress Ink in the color Barn Door. I just let some ink drop in the page here and there and then use a straw and blow on the wet ink.

Now it´s time to use some stamps. For this layout I took my circle stitched stamps from Prima. I stamped so that the circles went from one side to the other on the background paper. Then I started to distress my paper edges and went over the edges with some Distress Ink in the color Barn Door.

When
I have come this far it´s time to let the real fun begin =). I put everything,
papers, photo and embellishment on the background paper, without glueing it
down, to see that my design works. This process can take a while, any of you
that are like me, moving things around on the page like forever! But this was
the way I chose to put my embellishment and papers.... and realised that the
bottom right corner looked empty, so I had to use my Gelatos, stencils and Inks a
little more. The last thing I did was to write my journaling on paper stripes
and put it on the page.

And this is how the page turned out!

I love this page Maja - so vibrant and colourful.

Don't forget this month's challenge - details are in the left sidebar. Remember you have until the end of the month to submit your entry.

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

We
have a very exciting challenge for you this month. ARTastic is
joining forces with CSI
– Color.. Stories.. Inspiration..
to bring you a joint ARTastic challenge and CSI collaboration Case
File that will be open on both sites for the entire month of July. We will be working with this amazing Australian Government promotional travel poster circa 1930. The ARTastic criteria is to use striped patterned paper somewhere on your page.

We're
delighted to have some of the CSI design team joining us this month (please see their wonderful layouts on thre right sidebar) and you will see many of the ARTastic team acting as Special Deputies for the month of July over on CSI.

CSI
is a weekly challenge designed to inspire scrapbookers to tell their
stories and to create beautiful, meaningful pages based on a
color scheme and an inspiration image.We want our challenges to
inspire you to try
new color schemes.
We've designed our Case Files to give you a jumping
off point and
an excuse to shop
your stash and
possibly rediscover some oldies but goodies gathering dust. And we
want our challenges to give you a push to tell
your stories.
We often hear that journaling is the most difficult part of the
scrapbooking process, and we hope that our ideas will put the fun
back into storytelling!

CSI
encourages scrapbookers to explore the artistic side of scrapbooking
while preserving the essential reason we started scrapbooking in the
first place--capturing on our pages the bits and pieces—the
stories--that
make our lives special and meaningful and unique. CSI is all about
inspiration and sharing and, most important, fun (with prizes,
features, and guest designer opportunities as icing on the cake)! We
can't wait to see the stories you'll tell and the art you'll create!

So
two challenge blogs and now double the chances of winning for July.
Please upload your layout both here at ARTastic and in the CSI
Gallery to be eligible for monthly donated prizes on both sites BUT please remember you must include the criteria of striped patterned paper for
ARTastic and then the additional case file criteria for CSI on your page. Of course if you don't wish to play along with CSI you are most welcome just to upload your ARTastic criteria page here with us.

This month we have two main sponsors - each offering a $15 voucher to their stores.

and of course every month we also offer a prize pack totally by random draw.

And because this month is special you will get to see most of our creative team in action right now on the first reveal. Don't worry ... we will still have a few surprises in store for you on the 15th !!

I went with the beach theme and scrapbooked a photo of my girl at the beach. We
spend the cooler days at the beach dune boarding or fishing. Followed the
colours and elements for CSI which made this page easy to put together.

When I saw the backview of the lady standing on the balcony, I immediately
thought of these photos that I had taken which I had previously considered not
scrapping at all. Also the scallops on the awning prompted me to include some
scalloped lace and paper doilies.

I've used the beach idea and the theme from the topper to create a collage, this month (about a hot air balloon race). The background paper, from Fabscraps has been left as it was. The hot air balloons have been cut from different papers and finished with washi tape, ribbon or braid.Colours used all come from the inspiration poster.

The Seaside inspiration photo made me "dig out" some more photos from Cornwall and the beach in the background reminded me of the beach in St.Ives. since ARTastic are having a combined challenge with CSI this month it was just to follow the colour swatch, and some old October Afternoon papers had just about the right colours

I just loved the colours in this poster - so vibrant and carefree. I've used scallops and polka dots, added in a little bird and used photographs from a summer vacation from a few years ago.

Please upload the DIRECT link to your actual entry with the link tool on the LEFT by 11.55pm on July 31st, 2014. We'd love to see your new paper, digital, or off the page entries. Please no back-dated submissions. You may combine witha sketch and/or colour/technique challenge and international entries are always welcome. Remember we are Australian based so you need to allow for the different time zones - if in doubt check our clock.

Please pop back on the 8th for The ARTastic 3T's - Tips, Tricks and Techniques brought to you this month by our wonderfully creative team member, Maja Stokk. I am sure she will inspire you.

February random draw prize

2nd random draw prize if more than 8 entries

January inspiration is by Chris Vella called Joy.

JANUARY entries ...

January Prize

JAN second prize - if more than 8 entries

Donated by Sharon Bishop

NO WORD VERIFICATION please

Our Creative Team love to leave comments on each and every entry, so please make it easier for them to do so and remove WORD VERIFICATION for your comments. If you choose to use specialist galleries please be aware we may not be able to leave comments for you.

ARTastic is a challenge blog with a difference. We find inspiration in works of art.THE RULES - You don't need to be arty to play along with us - we accept traditional paper, digital, mixed media and off the page creations at any level. International entries are welcome. You may combine with 3 other challenges. Please include our inspirational artwork and a link back to ARTastic on your entry and tell us how you were inspired by our artwork.